A massive underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock recently discovered in Norway is big enough to satisfy world demand for fertilisers, solar panels and electric car batteries over the next 100 years, according to the company exploiting the resource.
You can’t be serious, right? Right?
Austria is deeply corrupt and making taxpayer gifts to private investors, and then forgetting the ties to what good the investor needs to bring in return is standard procedure in Germany and Austria. Somehow the people involved on government side then tend to get lucrative presentation deals, or flast for cheap, but our corruption laws mostly concern themselves with the waste worker getting flowers too expensive, rather than high level interactions between government, businesses and politicians.
Sadly I am serious.
If you understand German (or can bear automatically transcribed and automatically translated subtitles), here’s a good summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzyeD33xhi8